Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Том 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... Truth Praise as a Duty Life as a Test of Fitness Art and Religion AMICIS , EDMONDO DE 1846- 157 The Shams , Shamelessness , and Delights of Paris AMIEL , HENRI FRÉDÉRIC 1821-1881 165 A Soap Bubble Hanging from a Reed " John Halifax ...
... Truth Praise as a Duty Life as a Test of Fitness Art and Religion AMICIS , EDMONDO DE 1846- 157 The Shams , Shamelessness , and Delights of Paris AMIEL , HENRI FRÉDÉRIC 1821-1881 165 A Soap Bubble Hanging from a Reed " John Halifax ...
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... Truth Of Death Of Revenge Of Adversity Of Simulation and Dissimulation Of Parents and Children Of Marriage and Single Life Of Envy Of Love Of Great Place Of Boldness Of Goodness , and Goodness of Nature Of Atheism Of Superstition Of ...
... Truth Of Death Of Revenge Of Adversity Of Simulation and Dissimulation Of Parents and Children Of Marriage and Single Life Of Envy Of Love Of Great Place Of Boldness Of Goodness , and Goodness of Nature Of Atheism Of Superstition Of ...
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... truth . Further , we have had before us the same general idea that was pursued in " The World's Best Orations . " We did not then take all the great orations of even the world's greatest orators . We aimed to present a comparative view ...
... truth . Further , we have had before us the same general idea that was pursued in " The World's Best Orations . " We did not then take all the great orations of even the world's greatest orators . We aimed to present a comparative view ...
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... truth . If , for instance , we suppose a man who , for the first time in his life , has seen gunpowder explode upon a match be- ing applied to it , he would probably have an immediate convic- tion that a similar explosion would take ...
... truth . If , for instance , we suppose a man who , for the first time in his life , has seen gunpowder explode upon a match be- ing applied to it , he would probably have an immediate convic- tion that a similar explosion would take ...
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... truth by which , from the properties of a known effect , we infer the powers and qualities of an unknown cause . It is in this man- ner , for example , that from the works of nature we infer the ex- istence and the attributes of the ...
... truth by which , from the properties of a known effect , we infer the powers and qualities of an unknown cause . It is in this man- ner , for example , that from the works of nature we infer the ex- istence and the attributes of the ...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Том 1 David Josiah Brewer Перегляд фрагмента - 1908 |
Crowned Masterpieces of Literature That Have Advanced Civilization ..., Том 10 Edward Archibald Allen,William Schuyler Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2015 |
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Сторінка 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Сторінка 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Сторінка 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Сторінка xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Сторінка 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Сторінка 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Сторінка 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Сторінка 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Сторінка 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Сторінка 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...